Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...told about "the nervous movements and demonstrations which indicated the bewitching power of the music to which the Terphsichoreans glided across the floor below." The scene, we are told, "was one from fairy land," with "generous bowls of lemonade" scattered around, (could the ordinary mortal imagine such a fitting drink for fairies as lemonade?) while above this domain of fays hung the Yale crew's shell, which "looked down upon the people below, recalling the time when it had looked upon eelgrass and had felt sadder." Who could have thought of such a brilliant compliment to the young ladies...
...have no training higher than that of brutes may be expected to make brutes of themselves when they drink. The time has been - and that not ages ago - when he was considered the best fellow who could get the fullest. But in a community devoted to education and refinement, such sottishness cannot be of long duration. In no community will a man who looses respect for himself so speedily lose all respect from his fellows and fall so completely from caste. He may continue to be recognized by the men with whom he associates day by day, but unless...
...lead, and what is the most reasonably probable road to success. Moreover, argue these men, descending into slang, the graduates afloat in the hard work of life "do not go muckers" in anything like the same proportion; do not, when they fail, go under so hopelessly, or take to drink or disreputable courses so often. They are supposed to do so, because when they do they are marked men, and their friends tell stories of them and lament over them, whereas their rivals sink under the waters silently; but as a matter of fact, they are ruined past hope...
...they have to do is to fill every office, State and Federal, with members of the society, and to put none but Alpha Delts in command, either in the army or the navy, and they can then seize the supreme power, and compel every man, woman and child to drink lemonade, eat oysters and wear outlandish breast-pins...
...Drink? When and how much? When begin? Favorite drink? Favor license? Ever get full...